| 140 Internet Secuirty Issues Resources |
| 7 Charged with Using Malware to Rack Up $14M in Fake Ad Revenue |
| The Department of Justice has indicted seven people for allegedly hijacking millions of computers, manipulating traffic on popular websites, and generating more than $14 million in fraudulent advertising revenue. |
| November 10, 2011 |
| 7 questions to ask before opening an online bank account |
| With bank fees piling up, consumers are looking at Web-only alternatives |
| June 22, 2011 |
| 10 highlights of the FBI IT security record |
| The FBI has been a major landmark in the IT security landscape. Much like a landmark, it is immediately recognizable, utterly unignorable, and basically stationary. |
| June 21, 2011 |
| 90% of Companies Say They've Been Hacked in Last 12 Months |
| In a five-day survey that polled public and private organizations both large and small, Ponemon research found that 90% of the companies asked had been hacked in the las 12 months. |
| June 23, 2011 |
| 19,000 papers leaked to protest 'war against knowledge' |
| A critic of academic publishers has uploaded 19,000 scientific papers to the internet to protest the prosecution of a prominent programmer and activist accused of hacking into a college computer system and downloading almost 5 million scholarly documents from an archive service. |
| July 22, 2011 |
| 38,000 emails from U.S. special agent leaked by Anonymous |
| According to a Pastebin post, the group got their hands on and are leaking "over 38,000 private emails which contain detailed computer forensics techniques, investigation protocols as well as highly embarrassing personal information." |
| November 21, 2011 |
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| 'Anonymous' Hackers Reportedly Target Orlando Websites |
| A rogue group of computer hackers has reportedly made good on its threat to shut down Orlando-area websites. |
| June 29, 2011 |
| Adaptive Research & Design Co. |
| data recovery from crashes, viruses, electrical surges, and sabotage, on hard and floppy drives under any operating system. |
| Provides a Service |
| Adobe issues a patch for critical security holes in Reader and Acrobat |
| As part of its quarterly patch update, today Adobe issued a critical security update plugging multiple security holes in its Acrobat Reader, and Adobe Acrobat software applications. |
| January 11, 2012 |
| Adobe tops Kaspersky Lab's list for top ten PC vulnerabilities |
| Spring turned out to be the season of security flaws and vulnerabilities, and Adobe doesn't have much to be proud about according to Kaspersky Lab's list for top ten PC software vulnerabilities. |
| May 20, 2011 |
| Advertiser settles charges for use of Adobe Flash cookies |
| An internet-based advertising network has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges stemming from its use of Adobe Flash cookies to track internet users' browsing history, even when they took steps to evade monitoring. |
| November 8, 2011 |
| Android malware masquerading as Google+ app |
| A new flavor of Android malware is disguising itself as a Google+ app in an attempt to capture instant messages, GPS, location, call logs, and other sensitive data. |
| August 16, 2011 |
| Anonymous bloggers in danger of being exposed |
| You're a blogger who, for whatever reason, wishes to remain anonymous. You are careful not to mention anything that could tie the blog to you, and you have gone through the trouble of hiding any personal information that might show on the domain record and made sure other sites you maintain all have different IP addresses. |
| November 28, 2011 |
| Anonymous claims to have breached NATO security |
| Anonymous is claiming that it has hacked past NATO security and taken restricted documents maintained by the global organization. |
| July 21, 2011 |
| Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack |
| Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they've got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked. Today they've leaked it. |
| July 11, 2011 |
| Anonymous Picks up Slack as LulzSec Calls it Quits |
| Hacking season is not over yet. Even though LulzSec, the group of hackers who made a name for themselves by hacking Sony, Nintendo, and PBS among others, called it quits on Saturday, another group wants to pick up the slack. |
| June 27, 2011 |
| Anonymous Plans Second BART Protest |
| The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) warned San Francisco area passengers of possible service disruptions on Monday afternoon because of a second protest planned by hacker group Anonymous. The demonstration, dubbed OpBART, is scheduled to start at around 5 p.m. on BART's Civic Center station platform, which is the same place as ">last week's public outcry. |
| August 22, 2011 |
| Anti-Phishing Working Group |
| Committed to wiping out Internet scams and fruad. |
| An Article |
| Apache reverse proxy flaw opens door to internal networks |
| Apache has confirmed the existence of a new reverse proxy vulnerability after it was discovered by Prutha Parikh, a security researcher with Qualys, while she was creating a vulnerability signature for QualysGuard. |
| November 28, 2011 |
| Apache squashes 'devastating' bug under attack |
| Maintainers of the open-source Apache webserver have fixed a severe weakness that attackers are exploiting to crash websites. |
| August 30, 2011 |
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| BioWare latest hack victim |
| Now more real lady lesbian bloggers than secure passwords on the internet |
| June 16, 2011 |
| Botnet takedowns reduce spam by 90%, but more action needed |
| If there's one thing I detest about trips to the post office, it's weeding out of important mail from the never-ending torrent of flyers and advertisements. Fortunately, I don't check my mailbox all that often any more because the bulk of my correspondence has been arriving in my Gmail account for years — and apart from offering built-in spam controls that have always been good at separating the wheat from the chaff, other developments in the past year have allowed my online inbox to remain squeaky-clean, unlike my still-cluttered mailbox. |
| July 5, 2011 |
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| California Do-Not-Track web privacy law moves forward |
| Companies trading online in California could soon be forced by law to give consumers the right not to be tracked across the web. |
| May 4, 2011 |
| Catapult Integrated Systems |
| is a premier systems integrator and commercial managed Internet services provider serving northern California since 1992. |
| Provides a Service |
| Change management leads to security breaches |
| 75% of organizations believe their current change management processes could put them at risk of a security breach, according to Tufin. |
| November 17, 2011 |
| Changing nature of DDoS attacks |
| The volume of packets-per-second has almost quadrupled compared to Q3 2010, illustrating a significant increase in the size and diversity of DDoS attacks over the past 12 months, according to Prolexic Technologies. |
| November 17, 2011 |
| China claims US started global 'Internet war' after Google attack |
| This Gmail hacking scandal is continuing to blow up. China has not only refuted claims that it was responsible for the incident but now accuses the United States of starting a global "Internet war." |
| June 3, 2011 |
| Citi Defends Delay in Disclosing Hacking |
| Citigroup Inc. waited as long as three weeks to notify credit-card customers of a hacking attack because it was conducting an investigation and producing replacement cards, according to a person familiar with the situation. |
| June 14, 2011 |
| Companies bundling spyware, adware with open-source media player |
| VideoLAN developer Ludovic Fauvet has come out swinging against companies that bundle adware and spyware with the open-source VLC media player. |
| July 14, 2011 |
| Cookie hijacking vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer |
| A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer, including IE9, on all versions of Windows. This vulnerability allows hackers to steal login information for any sites requiring passwords. The theft of one's credentials is achieved by taking advantage of a flaw in how Internet Explorer handles cookies. While it sounds alarming at first glance, this vulnerability does require a fair amount of interaction from a user for it to be successful - thus being another example of social engineering. |
| May 27, 2011 |
| Cost of Average Data Breach Climbs to $7.2 Million |
| A new study from the Ponemon Institute--sponsored by Symantec--reveals that the average cost of a data breach increased by seven percent to $7.2 million in 2010--with the most expensive data breach jumping 15 percent over the previous high to a whopping $35.3 million. One thing is very clear: losing sensitive data is an expensive proposition. |
| March 8, 2011 |
| Court Says No Harm, No Foul With Flash Cookies |
| There were some articles a few months back about the use of "flash cookies," which could potentially record more information about visitors than regular cookies, and were much more difficult to turn off. As with pretty much every new privacy fear, class action lawsuits quickly followed. |
| August 20, 2011 |
| Criminals and cyber bullies to be banned from the web |
| Criminals who commit offences online and cyber bullies will be banned from the internet as part of the Government’s new cyber security strategy, announced today. |
| November 25, 2011 |
| Critical vulnerability in Sun Java |
| ACROS Security has discovered a vulnerability in Sun Java, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system, according to Secunia. |
| July 12, 2011 |
| Cybercriminals go for easy money: Facebook and Bitcoin users |
| Bank, credit card and PayPal accounts aren't as lucrative treasures for cybercriminals -- not like they once were. New security measures make pilfering accounts more difficult than years past. So the bad guys are going after easier money and, in process, younger users. In its third-quarter "Community Powered Threat Report", released today, AVG Technologies identifies two emerging security trends: Clipjacking and Survey Scamming Facebook accounts and siphoning digital money from Bitcoin users. With both, cybercriminals tap new revenue streams, cell phone accounts for the one and pure currency for the other. |
| October 11, 2011 |
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| Dangerous WebGL Flaw Puts Firefox and Chrome Users at Risk |
| Security researchers have discovered a dangerous vulnerability in WebGL--a Web standard used by Firefox and Chrome to deliver 3D graphics within the Web browser. The flaws may be exploited to enable an attacker to run malicious code on the system, and could expose sensitive data. |
| May 9, 2011 |
| Data Security |
| Seclore is an information rights management company which helps to protect documents and information by preserving enterprise rights management. |
| Provides a Service |
| Does risk outweigh the benefits from the cloud? |
| Cloud computing provides organizations with an alternative way of obtaining IT services and offers many benefits including increased flexibility as well as cost reduction. |
| November 21, 2011 |
| Drive-by-download Attack Exploits Critical Vulnerability in Windows Media Player |
| Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have come across a Web-based attack that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows Media Player. |
| January 27, 2012 |
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| E-commerce sites based on open source code under attack |
| About 100,000 Web pages for e-commerce sites based on the open source OS Commerce software have been compromised with malware through a mass iFrame injection attack, according to security firm Armorize. |
| July 28, 2011 |
| Epsilon data breach: What's the value of an email address? |
| Epsilon, an email marketing service provider, suffered a data breach last week and the apologies from its big-name customers keep belatedly pouring in. Target, Marriott, Chase and others are doing the email walk of shame. |
| April 5, 2011 |
| Estonians, Russian charged in Internet ad scam |
| Six Estonians and a Russian were charged Wednesday with infecting computers, including NASA machines, with malware as part of an online advertising scam that reaped at least $14 million. |
| November 9, 2011 |
| European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) |
| leads task forces, organizes conferences, and publishes documents. |
| Provides Information |
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| F-Secure finds rare digitally signed malware |
| Researchers at F-Secure have uncovered a rarity--malware that is signed with a valid code-signing certificate stolen from a government. |
| November 14, 2011 |
| Facial recognition software could reveal your social security number |
| According to a new study which will be presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, technology has made it possible to identify and gain the personal information of strangers by using facial recognition and social media profiles like Facebook. |
| August 2, 2011 |
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| Google Docs hosted phishing schemes abound |
| Google Docs is a helpful office suite and data storage service that allows users to collaborate on documents with ease but, unfortunately, it is also a very useful tool for phishers. |
| January 16, 2012 |
| Google Fights to Make HTTPS Safe |
| A number of hack attacks recently have made many question the fundamental security of the Internet--hack attacks that have brought into question a system that until now was considered be bullet-proof. However, with appropriate good timing, two new security schemes are coming to the rescue. |
| April 5, 2011 |
| Google index change exposes 43,000 Yale social security numbers |
| Another day, another serious data breach. This time, Yale University left social security numbers on an unsecured server, and complained when Google indexed it. Facepalm. |
| August 26, 2011 |
| Google One of Many Victims in SSL Certificate Hack |
| A Dutch company that issues digital certificates used to authenticate websites said late Tuesday that several dozen other websites in addition to Google have been affected by a security breach. |
| August 30, 2011 |
| Google Warns 1 Million PCs Hit by Search Hijack |
| A quick-witted Google engineer has uncovered evidence that as many as one million Windows PCs appear to be infected by browser redirection malware that is sending searches through proxy servers in order to generate traffic. |
| July 22, 2011 |
| Google's 'Me on the Web' Tool Alerts You to Personal Data Leaks |
| Google has launched Me on the Web, a new tool allowing anyone with a Google account to monitor what personal information about them appears online. |
| June 16, 2011 |
| Google, Microsoft, Facebook, others team up to eliminate phishing |
| Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft, and AOL--along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments--succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing. |
| January 30, 2012 |
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| Hacker Claiming He Can Exploit Windows Update |
| A hacker who stole SSL certificates from a Dutch-based certificate authority claims that he can distribute malware through Microsoft's Windows Update. |
| September 10, 2011 |
| Hacker group Anonymous takes down the Department of Justice and the RIAA |
| Outrage over the raid on file-sharing site Megaupload lead to a denial-of-service attack |
| January 20, 2012 |
| Hacker group claims hit on US defense contractor |
| Hacker group Anonymous released a trove of military email addresses and passwords it claimed to have plundered from the network of US defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. |
| July 12, 2011 |
| Hackers figure out MS Point card algorithm and steal $1.2 million |
| If you've ever purchased a Microsoft Points card then you've seen the long line of characters you have to input to add the points to your Xbox Live account. Those codes are generated by an algorithm Microsoft relies on to always create unique codes and associates them with a given number of points. |
| March 10, 2011 |
| Hackers target business secrets |
| Intellectual property and business secrets are fast becoming a target for cyber thieves, a study suggests. |
| March 28, 2011 |
| How Anonymous took down the DoJ, RIAA, MPAA and Universal Music Websites |
| Anonymous, the Internet-based hacker and protest group, did it with a distributed denial of service attack, here’s how they did it. |
| January 20, 2012 |
| How to Secure Yourself from GPU Password Cracking |
| Using a $100 graphics card and a freeware utility, you can bruteforce NTLM MD5 password hashes at a rate of 3.3 billion guesses per second. A comparable CPU can bruteforce the same hashes at just 9.8 million per second. The same utility can only crack SHA1 passwords at around half the speed, but it's hard to avoid the shocking truth: if you use passwords less than 10 characters in length, you are not safe. |
| June 6, 2011 |
| HP Unveils Expanded Enterprise Security Solutions for the Instant-On Enterprise |
| Comprehensive security services and technology portfolio delivers insight and protection against modern cyberthreats |
| September 12, 2011 |
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| 'Indestructible' rootkit enslaves 4.5m PCs in 3 months |
| One of the world's stealthiest pieces of malware infected more than 4.5 million PCs in just three months, making it possible for its authors to force keyloggers, adware, and other malicious programs on the compromised machines at any time. |
| June 30, 2011 |
| 'Iranian' attackers forge Google's Gmail credentials |
| Extremely sophisticated hackers, possibly from the Iranian government or another state-sponsored actor, broke into the servers of a web authentication authority and counterfeited certificates for Google mail and six other sensitive addresses, the CEO of Comodo said. |
| March 23, 2011 |
| IMF hit by major cyber security hack |
| The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that they have been targeted by what they called "a sophisticated cyber-attack". |
| June 12, 2011 |
| Internet Security Guide: Resources to keep you safe online |
| Everything you need to know to be safe on the internet |
| November 25, 2011 |
| IPv6 intro creates spam-filtering nightmare |
| The migration towards IPv6, which has been made necessary by the expansion of the internet, will make it harder to filter spam messages, service providers warn. |
| March 8, 2011 |
| IT security budgets set by U.S. federal agencies |
| A new IDC Government Insights report examines IT security budgets set by each U.S. federal agency and reveals how much each organization actually spends on security-focused products and services. |
| November 21, 2011 |
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| Java, Adobe vulns blamed for Windows malware mayhem |
| Failure to patch third-party applications has become the main reason that Windows machines get infected with malware. |
| September 28, 2011 |
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| Leprechaun Software |
| develops VirusBUSTER, an anti-virus software that protects PCs from boot, program, macro, and email based viruses. |
| Provides Information |
| LulzSec accepting hack requests via phone |
| Lulz Security has had an absolutely blazing day yesterday, hacking not only the United States Senate.gov address but also taking down the Escapist Magazine, Minecraft and EVE Online in a self-proclaimed "Titanic Takeover Tuesday." Now the hacker group has gone one step further, asking all fans to submit their hacking requests via a telephone request line. |
| June 15, 2011 |
| LulzSec Calls It Quits After 50 Days of 'mayhem' |
| The computer hacking group LulzSec said Saturday it had ended its campaign of cyberassaults on government and corporate websites and that it was time for it to "sail into the distance." |
| June 26, 2011 |
| LulzSec Hacker Victims Alerted |
| Literary website Writerspace.com has admitted that almost a quarter of the 62,000 e-mail logins published after an attack by LulzSec came from its user database. |
| June 19, 2011 |
| LulzSec hackers claim CIA website shutdown |
| The hacker group Lulz Security has claimed it has brought down the public-facing website of the US Central Intelligence Agency. |
| June 16, 2011 |
| LulzSec hackers expose passwords of porn site users |
| Brazen hacking group LulzSec recently has gone after companies and organizations like Nintendo, PBS and an IT security company affiliated with the FBI. But now the group has gone after individuals, publishing the login passwords of nearly 26,000 users of a porn website. |
| June 13, 2011 |
| LulzSec Hacks UK Government, Begins Operation Anti-Security |
| Just one day after announcing that its new primary target would be governments, banks, and white hat security firms, LulzSec has apparently managed to breach the British government and download the United Kingdom Census 2011 data. The Census, which is performed every 10 years by all 60 million of the UK's residents, contains the personal details, religious beliefs, incomes, and education levels of every person in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. |
| June 21, 2011 |
| LulzSec's latest (and final) leak drops off dozens of files detailing AT&T's LTE plans |
| LulzSec, the anti-sec group that quickly rose to Internet infamy over the past month or so, has just as quickly disbanded and disappeared back into the ether -- but not without one last data dump. And buried inside the 450-or-so megabytes is a folder labeled "AT&T internal data." And inside that folder is a massive dump of AT&T's plans, memos, timelines and other sundries regarding its LTE rollout. |
| June 26, 2011 |
| LulzSec's Parting Trojan Is a False Positive |
| The LulzSec hacking group sailed off into the sunset Saturday, leaving behind a treasure trove of stolen data along with what some antivirus programs identified as a nasty surprise for anyone who downloaded the Torrent file: a Trojan horse program. |
| June 28, 2011 |
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| Manila AT&T hackers linked to Mumbai terror attack - cops |
| Police in the Philippines have arrested a group of four suspected hackers accused of funnelling profits from attacking corporate telephone networks to an Islamic terrorist group blamed for the attacks on Mumbai three years ago. |
| November 28, 2011 |
| Mass SQL injection attack leads to scareware |
| Security researchers from WebSense have detected a mass SQL injection attack (hxxp://lizamoon.com; 58,300 affected pages), which the cybercriminals monetize through scareware, also known as fake security software. The attack has also affected several iTunes web pages. |
| March 30, 2011 |
| Mastercard.com Slammed Again as Punishment Over WikiLeaks |
| MasterCard's main website was unavailable for some time on Tuesday as it appeared hackers were again targeting the company for its refusal to process donations for the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. |
| June 28, 2011 |
| McAfee to wipe mess off .xxx pr0n sites |
| ICM Registry, which plans to start selling .xxx domain names later this year, has inked a deal with McAfee to provide a free daily security scan for every website at a .xxx address. |
| June 28, 2011 |
| McAfee: Hackers Compromised 72 Organizations Since 2006 |
| Security vendor McAfee published a detailed report on Tuesday about a hacking group that penetrated 72 companies and organizations in 14 countries since 2006 in a massive operation that stole national secrets, business plans and other sensitive information. |
| August 3, 2011 |
| McAfee's website full of security holes, researcher says |
| McAfee.com has again been found to be susceptible to XC scripting and other flaws, research says |
| March 28, 2011 |
| Mebromi: the first BIOS rootkit in the wild |
| In the past few weeks a Chinese security company called Qihoo 360 blogged about a new BIOS rootkit hitting Chinese computers. This turned to be a very interesting discovery as it appears to be the first real malware targeting system BIOS since a well-known proof of concept called IceLord in 2007. The malware is called Mebromi and contains a bit of everything: a BIOS rootkit specifically targeting Award BIOS, a MBR rootkit, a kernel mode rootkit, a PE file infector and a Trojan downloader. At this time, Mebromi is not designed to infect 64-bit operating system and it is not able to infect the system if run with limited privileges. |
| September 15, 2011 |
| Microsoft attacks Google over security |
| Microsoft Corp. is lashing out at Google Inc., extending hostilities between two of the most prominent corporations in the technology industry. |
| April 11, 2011 |
| Microsoft provides protection for ASP.NET vulnerability |
| Microsoft published Security Advisory 2659883 to provide a workaround to help protect ASP.NET customers from a publicly disclosed vulnerability that affects various Web platforms industry-wide. |
| December 28, 2011 |
| Monsanto confirms Anonymous hacking attack |
| Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto confirmed today that it had been victimized by a hacking attack that the online activist collective Anonymous had announced on Tuesday. |
| July 13, 2011 |
| More than E-mail at Stake in Google Gmail Attack |
| There is a lot of talk--and diplomatic tension--this week related to reports that attacks originating from China have breached Google Gmail accounts, including those of senior US government officials. The focus is on e-mail, and whether or not e-mail accounts were hacked, but a breached Gmail account is a much bigger prize than just the e-mail account it is attached to. |
| June 3, 2011 |
| Mozilla addons site targeted in same attack that hit Google |
| The secure webpage hosting addons for Mozilla Firefox was targeted in the same attack that minted a fraudulent authentication credential for Google websites, the maker of the open-source browser said. |
| August 31, 2011 |
| mysql.com hacked and serving malware, stolen data sold on hacker forums |
| Users visiting mysql.com are being infected with malware, say security researchers. According to security firm Amorize, the hack is delivering malicious code through the use of an iFrame which in turn infects users with the Black Hole exploit. |
| September 26, 2011 |
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| nCircle PureCloud: Network security scanning service |
| nCircle announced PureCloud, a network security scanning service which combines security technology used by thousands of the world's largest enterprises and government agencies with a browser-based scanning service. |
| November 17, 2011 |
| Netflix outage not caused by hackers |
| Netflix, the Web's top video rental service but one with a history of suffering outages, saw another multihour blackout last night. |
| June 20, 2011 |
| New Malware Targets 64-Bit Windows |
| Rootkit writers have started exploiting a loophole that lets them write malware able to bypass the PatchGuard driver signing protection built into 64-bit versions of Windows, Kaspersky Lab has reported. |
| June 5, 2011 |
| New Windows 7 installs and IE: Security risk? |
| It's been a long, long time since Judge Jackson came down on Microsoft over its supposedly monopolistic practices, particularly regarding the Internet Explorer browser. |
| April 7, 2011 |
| Newly found Android malware infects millions: report |
| Android malware has infected possibly one to five million downloads -- "the highest distribution of any malware identified so far this year," a major security company reports. |
| January 27, 2012 |
| No patch for human stupidity: hackers |
| Hackers at DefCon have long understood that there is no patch for human stupidity. Last week, security researchers uncovered yet another strain of malicious software aimed at smartphones that run Google's popular Android operating system. The application not only logs details about incoming and outgoing phone calls, it also records those calls. |
| August 8, 2011 |
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| Oracle's MySQL.com hacked via SQL injection |
| Hackers over the weekend compromised Oracle's MySQL.com customer website via SQL injection and posted a list of usernames and passwords online. |
| March 29, 2011 |
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| Packet Analytics |
| Net/FSE, Packet Analytics' network data search engine, puts the power of real time searches over terabytes of NetFlow data in the hands of security analysts. Employing sophisticated algorithms, Net/FSE reduces exposure to significant business risk by enabling security specialists to quickly and determine the extent of a network alert. |
| Provides a Service |
| PBS web site hacked |
| The past couple of months have seen a lot of cyber attacks and hacks on many high profile targets. We have seen Sony's Playstation Network shut down, game publishers like Square Enix and Codemasters feel the heat. Most recently we have heard about an attempted cyber attack on the defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Now Venture Beat reports that yet another web site with a high profile owner has been hit with a cyber attack and it has some interesting features. |
| May 30, 2011 |
| Phishers go after your Google AdWords account |
| Cybercrooks have launched a "Google AdWords" phishing campaign in an attempt to trick marks into handing over sensitive login credentials to a bogus, newly registered, website. |
| July 26, 2011 |
| Phishing scam masquerades as Adobe upgrade |
| Phishers use all kinds of come-ons to lure their victims. But one persistent piece of spam tries to trick people by offering an upgrade to Adobe Acrobat. |
| March 31, 2011 |
| PhishTank |
| Out of the Net, into the Tank. |
| Provides a Service |
| Portuguese hackers strike back at Moody's downgrade |
| Portuguese hackers responded to a negative assessment of the country's ability to repay loans by defacing the website of credit reference agency Moody's. |
| July 8, 2011 |
| Privacy worries? Google shouldn't be your biggest fear |
| I've been thinking a lot about privacy lately, mostly about my own comfort levels with what's known about me from my Internet footprint. Granted, there's a lot of information about me on the Web - mostly because of my work as a tech journalist - so I'm not really all that paranoid anymore. |
| June 13, 2011 |
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| Remove Windows Script Hosting |
| completely from your system. |
| Provides Information |
| Researchers Look at New Ways to Keep Your Information Safe |
| Since 1997 identity theft and fraud has affected more than 5.4 million people in the United States. And that number is on the rise with, more than 1.3 million complaints to the Consumer Sentinel Network (CSN) between January and December of 2009 alone. According to the Federal Trade Commission (PDF), of the 721,418 fraud-related complaints to the CSN in 2009, this has cost customers [of various products and services] more than 1.7 billion dollars at a median payout of $399. But what can companies do to prevent fraud and identity theft? |
| June 29, 2011 |
| RSA Hit By Security Breach for SecurID |
| Security vendor RSA admits a breach, should you be worried? |
| March 18, 2011 |
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| Samsung responds to installation of keylogger on its laptop computers |
| In the first part of this two-part report, MSIA 2009 graduate Mohamed Hassan told of discovering a keylogger on two different models of Samsung portable computers. Today he continues the story. Everything that follows is Mr Hassan's own work with minor edits. |
| March 30, 2011 |
| Scareware slingers stumped by Google secure search |
| Google made secure search the default option for logged in users last month -- primarily for privacy protection reasons. |
| November 25, 2011 |
| Secure practices for online shopping |
| As we prepare for Cyber Monday and a holiday season of increased online shopping, NCSA advises that everyone take a moment to practice safe cyber behaviors. |
| November 21, 2011 |
| Secure remote access from SonicWALL |
| The proliferation of powerful smartphones and tablets poses a new problem for IT: providing secure remote access to network resources for a growing number of employees who use their own mobile devices for business purposes. |
| December 8, 2011 |
| SecureList |
| Kaspersky Lab presents Lab Matters, a series of webcasts that get right to the heart of some of the IT security industry's hottest topics. In the first program, two of the company's leading antimalware experts, Costin Raiu and Magnus Kalkuhl, will be giving viewers the complete lowdown on targeted attacks and discussing a host of other fascinating topics. |
| Provides Information |
| Security vendor applauds LulzSec attacks |
| In an unexpected move for a security company, SecurEnvoy today said that cyber break-ins and advanced malware incidents, such as the recent DDoS attack by LulzSec, should actually be welcomed and their initiators applauded. |
| June 28, 2011 |
| Seeking Address: Why Cyber Attacks Are So Difficult to Trace Back to Hackers |
| Sony, Google, RSA and now Citigroup are just some of the prominent victims of cyber attacks as defenses at large organizations prove porous and attackers elude detection |
| June 13, 2011 |
| Spam campaign bypasses Gmail filters, employs Google Docs |
| Every now and then, online crooks and spammers use Google Docs to host phishing forms or documents with embedded malicious links. One such spam campaign is currently delivering a simplistic email with a link to a Google Docs to inboxes around the world. |
| December 12, 2011 |
| Sony Admits Hackers Attacked Greek Unit |
| Sony has confirmed that hackers penetrated the company's servers in Greece, exposing the usernames, passwords, e-mails and phone numbers of 8,500 people. The hack affects users of Sony BMG Greece, and Sony said it discovered the attack on Sunday, according to Dow Jones Newswires. It's not clear whether Sony uncovered the hack on its own or was alerted to the problem after initial reports by the security firm Sophos and The Hacker News. |
| May 24, 2011 |
| Sony BMG Greece hacked, 8,385 users compromised |
| The hacks on Sony just never seem to end these days, with Sony BMG Greece the hackers' latest target as they scour the technology company's websites for unpatched vulnerabilities. An anonymous poster uploaded a user database from SonyMusic.gr to pastebin.com, including names and email addresses of 8,385 people registered to the site; passwords and telephone numbers are claimed to have been obtained as well however it appears this data is missing from the paste. |
| May 23, 2011 |
| Sony BMG internal network maps exposed |
| Sony has been caught on the wrong end of a hackers agenda for the past few weeks. First their entire PlayStation Network was hacked with information stolen and quickly leaked to the Internet, then when the service was relaunched, the website was once again taken down due to an exploit. |
| June 6, 2011 |
| Stiller Research |
| We provide current anti-virus news, a list of myths regarding viruses, a virus information list and a list of in-the-wild viruses. |
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| Symantec Names 3 Developers Making Apps Solely to Deliver Malware |
Symantec believes that iApps7, Ogre Games and redmicapps exist solely to distribute malware, the games they are distributing that you should watch out for are:- Counter Elite Force
- Counter Strike Ground Force
- CounterStrike Hit Enemy
- Heart Live Wallpaper
- Hit Counter Terrorist
- Stripper Touch girl
- Balloon Game
- Deal & Be Millionaire
- Wild Man
- Pretty women lingerie puzzle
- Sexy Girls Photo Game
- Sexy Girls Puzzle
- Sexy Women Puzzle
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| January 30, 2012 |
| Symantec Security Updates |
| library of documents on computer viruses including the top ten list of most common viruses and new viruses to be on the alert for, as well as general virus Q&A. |
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| Symbian trojan deliberate after all |
| It turns out that the trojan dialer game for Series 60 phones found this week wasn't part of the crack; it's deliberate copy protection gone bad. |
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| Targeted Malware, Spam Will Surge in '11 |
| Security software vendor predicts more malware campaigns will use social media to target mobile devices, apps and industry-specific systems. |
| December 2, 2010 |
| Tax prep maker warns customers of Epsilon e-mail hack impact |
| Intuit is warning its customers to be on the alert for identity theft scams after a breach at a major marketing firm put millions of email addresses in hackers' hands. |
| April 6, 2011 |
| Tax-themed spam delivers malware |
| The US Internal Revenue Service kicked off the 2012 tax filing season on January 4, and malware peddlers haven't waited much to begin targeting users with tax-themed spam emails. |
| January 23, 2012 |
| Teach children about online protection |
| In an effort to facilitate effective parent-child dialogue about Internet dangers, Trend Micro developed an eGuide with tips to help families have "The Talk" about online safety. |
| November 17, 2011 |
| Teenager arrested on suspicion of hacking |
| A teenager has been arrested in the UK in a joint Scotland Yard and FBI probe into the hacking of websites. |
| June 21, 2011 |
| The era of mass Internet attacks is over |
| A lot of the easy money in Internet attacks is gone. Now you have to do some homework and pick your targets more carefully to get a rewarding rate of return on your crimes. |
| July 1, 2011 |
| The value of securing Internet enabled devices |
| From the hottest new tablet to sleek smartphones and laptops, electronic devices are likely to be at the top of many consumers’ Christmas wish lists this year. Understandably, most lucky recipients will immediately load personal data, contact information, photos, and entertainment files onto their new toys, eager to enjoy them right away. |
| December 12, 2011 |
| Top 7 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2012 |
| From Stuxnet to Sony, a number of cyberattacks emerged in 2011 that experts have predicted for quite some time. I predict 2012 will be even more pivotal, thrusting cybersecurity into the spotlight. These are my top seven forecasts for the year ahead: |
| November 17, 2011 |
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| US reveals Stuxnet-style vuln in Chinese SCADA 'ware |
| The US Department of Homeland Security is warning of holes in Chinese infrastructure software which could leave factories and power stations vulnerable to hack attacks. |
| June 17, 2011 |
| Use Password Safe to save effort and time in Windows 7 |
| Save time, effort, and privacy with Password Safe, a password manager on the Microsoft Windows platform. |
| May 30, 2011 |
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| Virus Alert |
| for GOOD TIMES, read about these fake viruses. |
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| VirusTotal |
| VirusTotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines. |
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| W32.Sircam.Worm@mm Removal Tool |
| Fix tool deletes the files infected with the W32.Sircam.Worm@mm worm and removes the changes that were made to a computer by this virus. |
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| Watch Out for Adobe Phishing Scams |
| There are phishing scams out there targeting Adobe users. Make sure you know how to recognize and avoid these threats when they arrive in your Inbox. |
| May 9, 2011 |
| Web Security Report: Jersey Shore's "J-Woww" a Leading Cause of Viruses |
| "I am like a praying mantis," says Jersey Shore's über-curvy Jenni J-Woww. "After I have sex with a guy, I will rip their heads off." |
| March 4, 2011 |
| Week in review: Mobile application security risks, holiday-themed scams, and reasons for ditching Java |
| Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and podcasts: |
| December 26, 2011 |
| What if a virus infected a virus? 'Frankenware' spotted by security firm |
| It does happen, says security firm BitDefender, and the result is more mutant than mutt. The firm has taken to calling the third, new piece of malware produced by the odd couple -- with apologies to Mary Shelley -- "Frankenware." The spontaneous software offspring might be dangerously unpredictable, and it can be harder to defend again, BitDefender says. |
| January 27, 2012 |
| Windows OneCare Live |
| Security at Home, Protect your PC. |
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| Zappos hacked, 24 million affected |
| The attackers may have swiped names, e-mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers and/or cryptographically scrambled passwords. |
| January 16, 2012 |